November 21, 2008

2. What I look forward to most on Thanksgiving is homemade stuffing and gravy. (Seriously, I could overload on that stuff, no problem.)

3. My Christmas/holiday shopping is started, but I'm starting to get anxious about when I'll get the rest done.

4. Thoughts of Twilight fill my head. ( I just got the books yesterday and I've finished the first one already and have started the second. Can't put them down.)

5. I wish I could wear jeans that fit. I've always wished I could find jeans that fit.

6. Bagpipes remind me of my Irish ancestry.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to lots of baking for tomorrow, tomorrow my plans include Crop for a Cure and my side of the family's Thanksgiving dinner and Sunday, I want to relax and read more from the Twilight series!!!!!!

November 18, 2008

I'm working at my uncle's greenhouses making wreaths for Christmas. If you're local and are looking for something new to try this season - maybe starting a new tradition - you should try making your own wreath. They offer classes if you're interested. It's fun and it smells so good when you walk in the greenhouse!

As for the wearing of different shoes, well, luckily I caught that before heading to work yesterday. I looked down at my feet and something just didn't jive. It took me several moments to figure out that I had two different sneakers on. I thought oh man, Patty, you're losing it and then I went in to the living room to see if the kids could figure out what was wrong with my ensemble. They looked me over and got nothing so I told them to look at me from head to toe and then Sarah figured it out.

Other than that, let's see.... what else is going on around here.... The kids just got their school pictures and they look so mature. Sarah thought she got the wrong picture because it didn't look like her.... Report cards came home yesterday and the grades were very good across the board for Sarah and Ben. Todd and I are very proud.... Sarah is nursing a sore toe. She ran to get into bed last night and whacked her baby toe on Ben's bed post. It's a lovely shade of purple (her toe, not the bedpost).... Todd is waiting for a calm day to finish cleaning the chimney so we can start the coal stove. The lights came on up at Blue Mountain last night (it's about two miles from my house), so that means the cold is officially here.... I just ordered the Twilight series to see what all the hubbub is about.... My mind is aflutter with things to do/make/buy for Christmas.... I think that about wraps it up. Time is flying the closer we get to December. Busy busy busy!

November 13, 2008

I've grabbed a pen from the drawer several times now and instead of the click-click when I press the button at the top, I get a pleh. A saggy, unresponsive pen nib. I figured out why tonight when I stopped at the kitchen table to see what Ben was working on.

Ben's been driving me crazy with Mom, can I have two pop dots? on an almost daily basis. He keeps constructing a Ben 10 omnitrix over and over and over again. He has a basket full of them...

I had to lay them out just for posterity. Proof of how he is now with his repetitive creations (some are works in progress)...

He goes through my button jars to look for buttons, and he's very specific - they have to be big, green buttons. He places the pop dots under the buttons, because that's how the omnitrix works: Ben 10 presses a button to activate the omnitrix, the center pops up and he can spin the dial to any of the 10 aliens featured, then he smacks the center dial back down into the omnitrix and he is transformed into the alien. So, that's why we need a cushiony thing under the button. Like pop dots.

Or, a spring from a pen.

He figured out how to anchor the spring to the pop dots - one end of the spring pushed into the pop dot on the back of the button and the other end of the spring pushed into the pop dot on the omnitrix itself. Gives it some good height and makes it cushiony-er.

I go through rolls of tape (the empty tape roll also makes a good dial, so do water bottle caps), piles of paper, pieces and pieces of chipboard, so he can make umpteen omnitrixes. Before the omnitrix it was the Maurauder's Map from Harry Potter. Before that it was field journals from Diego and dozens of little paper Diego's. Before that it was Joe and Steve Blue's Clues's notebooks. He makes multitudes of whatever he's into at the moment.

November 09, 2008

November 07, 2008

Some of my online friends have been doing this and it looks like fun, so here goes.... my Friday fill-ins

1. My blueprint for success includes believing in myself. 2. A Wintogreen lifesaverwas the last candy I ate.3. The best facial moisturizer I've ever used is Oil of Olay (been using it for over 20 years).4. Laughter can be good therapy. (the belly-laugh, tears rolling down your cheeks kind of laughter)5. I'd like to tell you about the time I drove around with a cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee on my roof and it didn't fall off or spill (it rolled around in between the luggage rack bars).6. Compassion is my strongest characteristic.7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to reading in bed, tomorrow my plans include doing a ton of laundry and getting some creative time in and Sunday, I want to get my flu shot! (well, I don't want to, but it's on the agenda)